I know what you are thinking: that General Stanley McChrystal's comments--quoted in the upcoming edition of Rolling Stone--stem from disrespect for President Obama because the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan is a racist that doesn't want to serve a black president.

You immediately came to mind when I heard this. And, no, I'm not referring to Obama supporters within black America.

I'm talking to President Jimmy Carter as well as those on the liberal left. To you, the cancer of race is popping up more in America because Obama is the first black president. In 2009, everyone from liberal media personality Janeane Garofalo to the former president of Georgia noted that racism had an impact on Obama's ability to lead the nation. To you, it fits that the same racism that prompted the Tea Party movement, opposition to health care and the overall disapproval of this president factored in this latest act of disrespect by McChrystal, right? You haven't said it publicly yet, but let me voice what you're probably thinking: At some level, having a black president played a role in this incident with McChrystal.

However, you would be wrong. The actions leading to McChrystal's resignation are merely another example of "chickens coming home to roost" due to our lack of American pride and decorum. It's a sign that America is losing the good sense of patriotism and duty that made this nation strong and prosperous as the envy of the world.

I do not agree with McChrystal's words and actions as documented in the Rolling Stone article that had him flying nonstop from the Middle East back to the White House to explain his actions. The chain of command cannot be broken through petty, publicized comments in a tabloid-like magazine. The comments should have never appeared in print and it cost McChrystal his position. (As it should have.) Yet, in the greater content, it symbolizes everything to do with America's slippage from a respected and benevolent superpower to a bully feared by many in the world.

The failure to respect authority and acquiesce to the chain of command has gone on for decades now. It not only involves dissension coming from within our military toward the White House, but also from our commanders in chief toward the American people. The freedom to speak up whenever we desire without any moral restraint to temper those comments creates a slippery slope down which a society of liberty can lose its footing.

It is a downward slide toward disunity and away from mutual support between the White House, the military and the American people; and it started long before President Obama came into office.

Consider Gen. Douglas MacArthur, who had a long and tenured military career and a history of disrespecting the occupant of the Oval Office. Like McChrystal in the Middle East, MacArthur was a general who led a promising campaign to re-establish American supremacy in the Far East during both World War II and the Korean War. Also like McChrystal (with his request for additional troops for the surge), MacArthur saw fit to pit himself against decisions made by the White House during wartime. In 1951, President Harry Truman fired MacArthur for insubordination. Sound familiar?